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>Anyone remember when Linux used to have a decent, fully-featured UI, complete with window snapping, edge-reaching window control controls, and all of the functionality Windows had and more?
I also remember changing vm.swappiness to 0, reducing menu delay in conf files, system lockups because the theme system was thrashing the disk, esound, bonobo, metacity, throwing metacity out the window to install fucking compiz, mono, gsettings, language bindings that didn't use GIR and were always out of date, libglade, actually needing to run Xorg -configure because kernel mode setting didn't exist, and the other raft of shit people like to forget when they convince themselves that GNOME 2 was the greatest thing since LaTeX.
And that's just shit that was around in the 2.4 days.
>Were tablets and shit so fucking important to the devs that we just had to transition to a horrible hybrid UI that NOBODY FUCKING USES ON AN ACTUAL TOUCH DEVICE?
GNOME supports touch devices. Desktop is still the primary platform. Unless you somehow forgot that for more than a year you needed to use a keyboard just to make the shut down button appear.